Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 3:03:33 PM CET
Baseball caps must be banned
Wearing a baseball cap in hospital is the start of a chain of uncivil behaviour which leads directly to assaulting doctors and nurses. So argued Theodore Dalrymple on today's programme.
Dalrymple calls for "zero tolerance" on the matter.
¬> BBC
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:41:53 PM CET
Soul museum to mark Stax label
The influence of legendary US soul music label Stax is to be recognised with the opening of a $20m (£12m) museum in April next year. The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is part of a urban and cultural renewal programme for a rundown area in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Soulsville USA .
¬> <a href="news.bbc.co.uk"target="_blank">BBC
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:40:13 PM CET
Europe's youngest MP
"I didn't just want to grumble, I really wanted to do something," says 19 year-old Anna Luhrmann, the youngest member of parliament in Germany - and in the whole of Europe.
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:34:21 PM CET
'Doped up' Russian soldier runs amok
A Russian soldier serving in the Caucasus has killed at least five of his fellow border guards in a shooting spree - reportedly after eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. At least three others were injured in the incident on Russia's southern border with Georgia.
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:29:05 PM CET
Conner might be finished with Cup
Stars & Stripes swept in Challenger series by OneWorld
Dennis Conner’s emotional exit from the America’s Cup, a departure provisional on legal wrangling ashore, helped highlight the changing face of the world’s oldest sporting event. Conner, at 60, is now contemplating quitting the Cup community. He admitted Friday, as his team suffered its final loss in a repechage sweep by OneWorld: “I don’t know if this is my last time here or not.”
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:23:54 PM CET
Sculptures out of match heads
I made my first matchhead in 1982. Kinskihead was a response to a reviewer comparing one of my magazine installations to a weekend modeller making a ship or the Eiffel Tower out of matches. The reviewer talked about matches as if their rightful place was at the bottom of the materials league. I was puzzled by this and immediately attracted to this underdog.
¬> <a href="www.davidmach.com"target="_blank">David Mach
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 1:56:55 PM CET
What's the world thinking about?
Sex, for one thing
Google's logs show that despite diversity in geography and ethnicity, people search for the same things. At Google's headquarters here, visitors sit in the lobby, transfixed by the words scrolling by on the wall behind the receptionist's desk: animacion, japonese, Harry Potter, brasileira de normas, tecnicas.
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 1:52:55 PM CET
First Dutch Cannabis Cafe Marks 30th Anniversary
It's 1972. Step inside the abandoned Amsterdam bakery where pot-smoking squatters are playing table soccer. Meet Wernard and his hippie friends, pioneers of the first Dutch cannabis cafe.
The 30th anniversary of the opening of the "Mellow Yellow" cafe is being commemorated in the Netherlands on Friday when cannabis smokers pay tribute to a taboo-busting enterprise which spearheaded the spread of the renowned Dutch "Coffee Shop."
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